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2023-24 Events

Fall 2023 Schedule

In Fall 2023, the Humanities Research Colloquium is co-sponsoring a series of panels with the Graduate School and the Center for Data, Ethics, and Society related to the nature, value, and limits of generative Artifical Intelligence.  Please save the following dates; more information will be posted soon!

  • "Exploring Large Language Model-Based Chatbots and Generative AI Use on Campus," Thursday, September 21, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Beaumier Suites BC, Raynor Memorial Library, and via Teams.

    A panel discussion with Dr. Michael Zimmer, Director, Center for Data, Ethics, and Society and Professor of Computer Science; Dr. Melissa Shew, Associate Director of Teaching Excellence, Center for Teaching and Learning; Dr. Gerry Canavan, Chair and Professor, Department of English; Dr. Jacob Riyeff, Director, Academic Integrity Office and Teaching Associate Professor, Department of English; and Dr. Larry Xu, Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication and Director, Ai4Ai Lounge.
  • "Engaging with Large Language Model-Based Chatbots and Generative AI Use on Campus," Thursday, November 30, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Beaumier Suites, Raynor Memorial Library.

    A panel discussion with Dr. Lilly Campbell, Associate Professor of English and Director of Foundations in Rhetoric; Dr. Gerry Canavan, Chair and Professor of English; and Dr. Larry Xu, Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication and Director, Ai4Ai Lounge.

Spring 2024 Schedule

  • Dr. Gabriel Velez
    Department of Educational Policy and Leadership, 向日葵视频
    "Thinking Through School-Based Restorative Justice and Identity: Practice, Research, and Challenges"
    Thursday, February 1, 4 p.m., 向日葵视频Hall 105, and via Teams
  • Dr. Joshua Burns
    Department of Theology, 向日葵视频
    "Shabbat as Defiance of Roman Law"
    Wednesday, April 17, 4 p.m., 向日葵视频Hall 105, and via Teams  (*note new date!)

2022-23 Events

Fall 2022 Schedule

  • Ganesh Sitaraman**
    New York Alumni Chancellor's Chair in Law, Vanderbilt Law School, and 2022-23 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
    "The Future of Supreme Court Reform"
    Thursday, September 29, 4 p.m., Lunda Room, AMU

    **co-sponsored by Marquette's Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Civic Dialogues Program, and the Departments of Political Science and Social and Cultural Sciences
  • Kate Ward
    Department of Theology, 向日葵视频
    "Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck: Moral Growth in an Age of Inequality"
    Wednesday, November 2, 4 p.m., 向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Laura Matthew
    Department of History, 向日葵视频
    "Two Bigamists in Tehuantepec"
    Wednesday, November 30, 4 p.m., 向日葵视频Hall 105

Spring 2023 Schedule

  • Samantha Majhor
    Department of English, 向日葵视频
    "Native American Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities"
    Wednesday, February 8, 4 p.m., 向日葵视频Hall 105, and via Teams
  • Maxwell Gray, Raynor Memorial Libraries, 向日葵视频, and
    Elizabeth Wawrzyniak, Foley Library, Gonzaga University,
    "Developing a Digital Critical Edition of Tolkien Fanzines"
    Wednesday, March 29, 4 p.m., 向日葵视频Hall 105, and via Teams
  • Drew Kim
    Department of Theology & Director, Center for the Advancement of the Humanities,
    向日葵视频
    "Addiction and the Humanities"
    Wednesday, May 3, 4 p.m., 向日葵视频Hall 105, and via Teams  [*note the new date!]

 

2021-22 Events

Fall 2021 Schedule**

  • Melissa Shew
    Department of Philosophy/Center for Teaching and Learning
    "Women and Intellectual Empowerment: Reflections on a TEDx Talk"
    Monday, October 18, 4 p.m., via Teams  
  • Anya Degenshein
    Department of Social and Cultural Sciences
    "Speculative Justice: How Digital Surveillance is Used to Adjudicate the Future"
    Monday, November 1, 4 p.m., via Teams
  •  Alison Efford
    Department of History
    "Queering Nineteenth-Century Romantic Friendship: Mathilde Franziska Anneke and Mary Booth, 1859-1865"
    Thursday, December 2, 4 p.m., via Teams

    **Please note:  All talks will be held virtually in Fall 2021.  To obtain the meeting links, please email cfah@marquette.edu.

Spring 2022 Schedule

The Colloquium is co-sponsoring the "Showcasing the Humanities" Lecture Series this semester:

  • Jessica Wolfendale
    Department of Philosophy
    "Philosophy and State Violence"
    Thursday, February 3, 5 p.m., Haggerty Museum of Art
  • Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent
    Department of Theology
    鈥淕luttony in Christian Theological Imagination鈥�
    Thursday, March 31, 5 p.m., Jewish Museum Milwaukee
  • Scott Dale
    Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
    鈥淭he Innovative Spanish Enlightenment鈥�
    Thursday, April 7, 5 p.m., Haggerty Museum of Art

2020-21 Events

Fall 2020 Schedule

  • Michael Zimmer
    Department of Computer Science
    "Data Ethics During a Pandemic"
    Thursday, September 17, 5 p.m., via Teams   
  • Tosin Gbogi
    Department of English
    "In the Belly of the Earth: Place and Displacement in Modern Nigerian Poetry"
    Wednesday, October 7, 4 p.m., via Teams
  • Jennifer Finn
    Department of History
    "The Hoplite Enigma: Ancient Persian War Strategy and Its Failures"
    Thursday, November 12, 4 p.m., via Teams

Spring 2021 Schedule

  • Jesse Cheng
    Department of Social and Cultural Sciences
    "Advocacy within Violence and Vulnerability"
    Monday, February 8, 4 p.m., via Teams  
  • Robert Smith, Theresa Tobin, Darren Wheelock, and Marisola Xhelili Ciaccio
    Departments of History, Philosophy, & Social and Cultural Sciences
    "The Education Preparedness Program: Reimagining the University's Role in Decarceration"
    Wednesday, March 3, 4 p.m., via Teams
  • Heather Hathaway
    Department of English & Program in Africana Studies
    "Japanese American Writing during Incarceration"        
    Monday, April 19, 4 p.m., via Teams

2019-20 Events

Fall 2019 Schedule

  • Elizaveta Strakhov
    Department of English
    鈥淐anonizing Chaucer in the Hundred Years War"
    Wednesday, September 18, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Stephanie Rivera Berruz
    Department of Philosophy
    鈥淲riting Belonging: An Antillean Conversation Between Luisa Capetillo and Ofelia Rodr铆guez Acosta鈥�
    Thursday, November 7, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Conor Kelly
    Department of Theology
    鈥淭he Fullness of Free Time: Leisure and Recreation in the Moral Life鈥�
    Wednesday, December 4, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105

 Spring 2020 Schedule

  • Sarah Gendron
    Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
    "Learning, Inc.: Big Business and Education in the United States"
    Thursday, January 30, 5 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Angela Sorby
    Department of English
    "Vikings in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry: Whiteness, Archaeology, and the Deep Past"
    Wednesday, February 26, 5 p.m. (*Please note new time.*)
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Jennifer Finn
    Department of History
    "The Hoplite Enigma: Ancient Persian War Strategy and Its Failures"
    [Thursday, March 26, 5 p.m.]   **Postponed**
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Michael Zimmer
    Department of Computer Science
    [Thursday, April 23, 5 p.m.]   **Postponed**
    向日葵视频Hall 105

2018-19 Events

Fall 2018 Schedule

  • Timothy McMahon
    Department of History, 向日葵视频
    鈥淪hifting Visions of Union: The Borders of What is Past, Passing, and to Come鈥�
    Thursday, September 20, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Sarah Wadsworth
    Department of English, 向日葵视频
    鈥淕rowing Up and Growing Old in an Awkward Age鈥�
    Wednesday, October 31, 5 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Michael McCarthy
    Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, 向日葵视频
    鈥淭he Master鈥檚 Tools: Finance against Capital鈥�
    Tuesday, November 27, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105

Spring 2019 Schedule

  • Jeffrey Coleman
    Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, 向日葵视频
    鈥淭he Necropolitical Theatre: Race and Immigration on the Contemporary Spanish Stage鈥�
    Thursday, February 14, 5 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Jessica Wolfendale
    Department of Philosophy, 向日葵视频
    鈥淭he Ethics of Torture鈥�
    Thursday, February 28, 5 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Deirdre Dempsey
    Department of Theology, 向日葵视频
    鈥淚bn at-Tayyib and his Commentary on Genesis鈥�
    Wednesday, April 3, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Cedric Burrows
    Department of English, 向日葵视频
    鈥淩hetorical Crossover, R&B Music, and Dinah Washington鈥�
    Wednesday, April 24, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105

2017-18 Events

Fall 2017 Schedule

  • Tara Daly
    Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
    鈥淎ymara Futurism in Bolivia: Freddy Mamani鈥檚 Architecture and Alison Spedding鈥檚 Science Fiction鈥�
    Tuesday, October 17, 5 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Corinne Bloch-Mullins 
    Department of Philosophy & Program in Cognitive Science 
    鈥淕etting Real about Similarity: A Theory of Categorization for the Pluralist Realist鈥�
    Thursday, November 9, 5 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Ainehi Edoro 
    Department of English
    鈥淭he Work of Pleasure鈥�
    Wednesday, November 29, 5 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105

Spring 2018 Schedule

  • Bryan Rindfleisch, Department of History
    鈥溾�橫y Land is My Flesh鈥�: Silver Bluff, the Creek Indians, and the Transformation of Colonized Space in Early America, 1700-1800鈥�
    **Wednesday, February 7, 5 p.m.**
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Mark Berlin 
    Department of Political Science
    鈥淭he Role of Technocratic Legal Experts in the Global Spread of National Criminal Laws against Human Rights Atrocities鈥�
    Wednesday, February 28, 5 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Michael Cover
    Department of Theology
    鈥淭he Divine Comedy at Corinth: Paul, Menander, and the Rhetoric of Resurrection鈥�
    Thursday, March 22, 5 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Jennifer Vanderheyden
    Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
    鈥淛ulia Kristeva and Denis Diderot鈥檚 鈥楨xcursion into the Heart of Belief'鈥�
    Thursday, April 19, 5 p.m.
    Cudahy 128

2016-17 Events

Fall 2016 Schedule

  • Amelia Zurcher
    Department of English and Honors Program, 向日葵视频
    鈥淕ender and Nation in Intellectual-Affective Networks in the Seventeenth Century:
    The Case of the Irish-English Boyle Siblings鈥�
    Wednesday, September 21, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Ericka Tucker
    Department of Philosophy, 向日葵视频
    鈥淪pinoza鈥檚 Biconditionals; Reducing Good, Right, Freedom and Virtue to Degrees of Power鈥�
    Thursday, October 27, 5 p.m.
  • Gordon Hutner
    Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    鈥淭he World of Scholarly Publishing鈥�
    Thursday, November 17, 5 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105

Spring 2017 Schedule

  • Kristen Foster
    Department of History, 向日葵视频
    鈥淭homas Jefferson鈥檚 鈥楤all of Liberty鈥�: Some Thoughts on How
    the Haitian Revolution Changed the Course of American Equality鈥�
    Thursday, January 26, 5 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Dawn Scher Thomae
    Curator of Collections, Milwaukee Public Museum
    鈥淏ending Gender: From Joan of Arc to Hua Mulan (and Beyond)鈥�
    Wednesday, February 15, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Heather Hlavka and Sameena Mulla
    Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, 向日葵视频
    鈥淭race/Body/Voice:  Cultural Narratives of Sexual Assault Prosecution in the Post-Forensic U.S.鈥�
    Wednesday, March 1, 5 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Melissa Range
    Department of English, Lawrence University
    鈥淪criptorium: A Poetry Reading鈥�
    Tuesday, March 21, 12:30 p.m.
    Haggerty Art Museum

2015-16 Events

Fall 2015 Schedule

  • Sarah Wadsworth
    Department of English, 向日葵视频
    鈥淭he Mysterious History of the First American Novel; or, The Clue in the Diary鈥�
    Thursday, September 24, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Amy Blair, Department of English, 向日葵视频, and
    Ruby Thompson 鈥�16, Writing-Intensive English Major, Marquette
    鈥淭asting and Testing Books: Reading Advice in Good Housekeeping 惭补驳补锄颈苍别鈥�
    Wednesday, October 28, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Janie Kim
    向日葵视频 Law School
    鈥淩acial Emotions and the Feeling of Equality鈥�
    Thursday, November 19, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105

Spring 2016 Schedule

  • Eugenia Afinogu茅nova,
    Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 向日葵视频
    鈥淢apping the Written Worlds鈥�
    Thursday, February 11, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Ryan Hanley, Department of Political Science, 向日葵视频; 
    Anthony Lanz, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, 向日葵视频;
    Darren Nah 鈥�15, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Yale University
    鈥淭he Experience and Significance of the Kantian Dinner Party鈥�
    Thursday, March 3, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105
  • Jason Puskar
    Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    鈥淢achine Interiority: Toys, Buttons, Subjects鈥�
    Thursday, April 7, 4 p.m.
    向日葵视频Hall 105